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“The resolution put forward by Speaker Pelosi confirms that House Democrats’ impeachment has been an illegitimate sham from the start as it lacked any proper authorization by a House vote,” said White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham. “It continues this scam by allowing [Intelligence Committee] Chairman Schiff, who repeatedly lies to the American people, to hold a new round of hearings, still without any due process for the president.”
The resolution put forward by Speaker Pelosi confirms that House Democrats’ impeachment has been an illegitimate sham from the start as it lacked any proper authorization by a House vote.
It continues this scam by allowing Chairman Schiff, who repeatedly lies to the American people, to hold a new round of hearings, still without any due process for the President.
The White House is barred from participating at all, until after Chairman Schiff conducts two rounds of one-sided hearings to generate a biased report for the Judiciary Committee. Even then, the White House’s rights remain undefined, unclear, and uncertain – because those rules still haven’t been written.
originally posted by: loam
a reply to: Lumenari
The Democrats are clearly worried they'll lose a court challenge and hope this gets them over the net.
Impeachment Is Heading to the Supreme Court. Trump’s Lawyers Will Be Happy.
When a Congress taking up impeachment runs headlong into a president claiming executive privilege, which side prevails? When a Congress performing oversight runs into a president who claims that oversight is a fraud, who wins?
In almost every scenario, the president can expect victory. Even if he loses these cases at the Supreme Court, it may only be after a long judicial process that could run out the clock on impeachment, perhaps even past the 2020 elections. Even better for Trump would be if the court, guided by Chief Justice John Roberts, creates new precedent protecting the president, or decides the judicial branch shouldn’t get involved in impeachment decisions—a win by default that would allow Trump to continue to stonewall.
“There is no case of the Supreme Court that discusses the ability of the Congress to secure documents and testimony from the White House during an impeachment,” says Saikrishna Prakash, an expert on presidential authority at the University of Virginia School of Law. It’s unclear if the courts will view impeachment as altering the calculus in deciding cases that are fundamentally about the balance of power between two branches of government. The administration announced Tuesday that in addition to executive privilege claims, it would not cooperate with Congress’ impeachment inquiry, arguing that the probe itself is constitutionally invalid, a claim it is also making in a lawsuit against the House Ways and Means Committee’s attempt to obtain Trump’s tax returns. The brewing battle over Congress’s requests could give Roberts, a conservative on a right-wing Supreme Court that is generally friendly to executive power, a chance to decide the question in a way that could hand a victory not only to Trump, but to future presidents.
originally posted by: TritonTaranis
Its just unbelivable, an absolute shambles from the dems, the world can see it, just let them hang themselves theyve already climbed on the chair lol
originally posted by: MiddleInsite
Who cares what the WH thinks? I believe the House and Pelosi are taking the lead on impeachment, since it is there place. We'll get to hear from the WH in the Senate.
Right now, the WH will just have to sit and wait. Pelosi is calling the shots for now.
originally posted by: hoss53
originally posted by: TritonTaranis
Its just unbelivable, an absolute shambles from the dems, the world can see it, just let them hang themselves theyve already climbed on the chair lol
Your statement is so on target . Just change the word Dems, to dumbass repucks.
originally posted by: ChefFox
a reply to: Lumenari
I still think and say Trump has this for 2020 and some republicans are safe.
so with it looking like baring any insane type of game changing evidence the house impeachment attempts is an exercise in futility
Trump ally and Senate Judiciary Chair Lindsey Graham, who’s at the forefront of this push in the upper chamber, introduced a resolution on Thursday that condemns the House inquiry and its interviews with impeachment witnesses behind closed doors. The resolution, which has 50 Republican cosponsors, also urges the House to hold a formal vote to initiate an impeachment inquiry, a move that could give lawmakers in the minority more power to subpoena witnesses. Three Republicans have yet to sign onto the measure including Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Mitt Romney (R-UT). “If you believe you have a case against the president, vote to open up an inquiry,” Graham said in a press conference announcing the resolution, which is also cosponsored by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.